Employment & Immigration | Procedures

We offer the provision and review of tailored documentation and training where required to empower our clients' HR team/Management to manage HR issues effectively. We regularly advise on a wide range of employment procedures, including:

Dismissal, including conduct dismissals, and redundancy dismissals falling both inside and outside the collective consultation requirements

Transfer of undertakings

Maternity leave and pay

Paternity leave

Parental leave

Flexible working

+ Work includes

Advising national clients in relation to the application of the Working Time Regulations and the National Minimum Wage in respect of their working practices

Advising an international professional services firm on the content of its international data protection policy

Advising on the closure of a business and negotiations with a Trade Union over a disputed collective agreement, avoiding any tribunal claims

Advising on long-term sickness absence and reasonable adjustments under the Disability Discrimination Act

Advising on a capability/performance issue where the employee achieved the required performance and is now progressing well in the role. This included guidance on correspondence, timetable for improvement and devising a performance improvement plan

Advising a National Insurance Company on the closure of one of its sites. This included advice on collective consultation, drafting “at risk” letters to employees, preparing a timetable for individual and collective consultation, considering alternative employment at the employer’s other sites and notice of redundancy

News & Insights

Today is an important one for those at risk of being defrauded out of their occupational pensions by cold calling scammers. From today, it will be illegal to cold call or text individuals to encourage them to transfer their safe and valuable pension into risky and usually fraudulent schemes.

The 2018 summer heatwave has seen temperatures soar in offices and workplaces, and raises, questions about the lack of maximum temperatures in any regulations or guidance. So, when is it too hot to work?

Employment Partner, Nicholas Lakeland recently featured on BBC Kent Drive Time with Steve Allen and Lauren Troup following Boris Johnson’s resignation speech in the House of Commons to discuss whether he had resigned ‘in the right way’ and generally what is the ‘right way’ to resign?

Nicholas Lakeland discusses this case which highlights that employers should be careful to consider the impact of symptoms of the menopause on an employee at work and that, in severe cases, these symptoms may amount to a disability.

Employees who are not able to get to work on account of snow generally expect to receive their salary. However, unless their employment contract expressly provides for this, there is no obligation for employers to pay the day’s wages.

Following the Presidents Club scandal, Nicholas Lakeland, examines the extent to which non-disclosure agreements prevent workers from speaking out and whether there is a lack of awareness about what is and what is not legally binding in an NDA.

Would a suggested limit of four weeks help to end the abuse of internships by some employers? Nicholas Lakeland, looks at proposals to improve the current internship system and clamp down on prolonged, unpaid holiday.

It is not just the main Carillion companies that may now find themselves in severe financial difficulties. Smaller subcontractors may find themselves having to consider their position with regard to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and the Pension Regulator.

Employment lawyers and HR teams are well acquainted with the routine dance involved in the negotiation of settlement agreements. However, it is important to note that HMRC has decided to make some changes which will affect some of the steps taken when negotiating exit payments.